A honeypot created by Cybereason to lure cybercriminals and analyze their methods showed that ransomware attacks infiltrate their victims in multiple stages. Some types of…
View More Honeypot reveals tactics used by cybercriminals to deploy ransomware
Another Florida city has decided to pay a ransom to the hackers who took control over its municipal computer systems. On June 25, the mayor…
View More Second Florida City Hit by Ransomware Opts to Pay
A data breach can inflict pain on an organization by stealing and leaking sensitive information. With user or customer accounts compromised, a company can suffer…
View More Data breaches cost US companies more than $1.2 trillion last year
Millions of websites have been compromised, but the most likely malware isn’t cyptomining: it’s quietly stealing files and redirecting traffic, a new Sitelock report shows.…
View More Website Attack Attempts Rose by 69% in 2018
The city council for Riviera Beach, Florida, voted this week to pay more than $600,000 to a ransomware gang so city officials could recover data…
View More Florida city pays $600,000 to ransomware gang to have its data back
Data breaches and security incidents are becoming increasingly costly. Canadian lender Desjardins Group recently revealed it had spent C$70 million ($53 million) in the wake…
View More What is the cost of a data breach?
Since February, spam exploiting the novel coronavirus has jumped by 4,300% and 14,000% in the past 14 days, according to IBM X-Force, IBM’s threat intelligence…
View More Coronavirus-themed spam surged 14,000% in two weeks says IBM
The source code of a major ransomware strain named Dharma has been put up for sale on two Russian hacker forums over the weekend. The…
View More Source code of Dharma ransomware pops up for sale on hacking forums
Digital Shadows researchers scanned various online file-sharing services and concluded the number of exposed files is up 50% from March of 2018. More than 2.3…
View More 2.3B Files Currently Exposed via Online Storage
Microsoft organized 35 nations on Tuesday to take down one of the world’s largest botnets — malware that secretly seizes control of millions of computers…
View More A Botnet Is Taken Down in an Operation by Microsoft, Not the Government